Hi Dmitry, On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 12:22 AM, Dmitry Torokhov <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Manish, > > On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 01:22:23AM +0530, Manish Badarkhe wrote: >> Update the code to use devm_* API so that driver core will manage >> resources. >> > > And the benefit of this would be...? > > There are still resources that are managed in traditional way and I > really dislike mixing the 2 styles. I can see applying patch that > converts the driver to use devm_ for all its resources and gets rid of > the remove() method altogether, but I am not sure how beneficial this > kind of changes are for existing drivers.
IMO devm_ makes us to manage resources properly without much care about freeing it ( as devm_handles freeing automatically). But, stiil there are use cases which makes us to mix this devm_ with traditionally managed resources. Not much sure about any other benefits. Regards Manish Badarkhe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tegra" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
